You had been to Japan only once before this, when you were eight.
There Are Girls Like You in Japan by Mimi Iimuro Van Ausdall
Category: July-August 2022
We Had No Woman by Ronit Plank
We were smoking Dad’s cigarette butts (okay just me) before he got home from work….
Peephole by Lotus Mae
I opened the door half-way and saw this young worker-type guy wearing a tool belt.
Origin Myths by Susan V. Meyers
On the day when I should have been inseminated, but am not, I find myself instead making up my mother’s face…
De-escalation by Lauren Woods
My son expertly held a tube of wrapping paper over one shoulder… pulled with his trigger finger, and aimed it toward me.
Bathymetry by Sally Jonson
It isn’t that your memory is full of holes, it’s a hole where your memory should be.
What I Wrote Was Congratulations What I Meant to Say Was by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff
We never thought we would stay in this city, did we? But I’m still turning the same corners….
INTERVIEW: Selina Mahmood, Author of A Pandemic in Residence: Essays from a Detroit Hospital
Selina Mahmood’s book felt like…was like to be a resident thrown into a hospital system in a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic.
INTERVIEW: Maryann Aita, Author of The Little Astronaut: A Memoir in Essays
Maryann Aita explores the concepts of intimacy, love, loneliness, and grief in her experimental collection of essays, The Little Astronaut.
INTERVIEW: Stephen J. West, Author of Soft-Boiled: An Investigation of Masculinity and The Writer’s Life
At its center, Soft-Boiled follows Stephen J. West as he shadows a private investigator by the name of Frank Streets.
